The "I respect Jesus" thread

[bigjon]

tombi123 said:

Note: I will only talk about Jesus, because Christianity is the only religion I know a fair amount about. Sorry, I just don't know enough about the other religions.

Some of you will know that I am an atheist. But I think the label is kind of unfair. I just simply do not believe in the guy in the sky. Plus I don't like to conform to a set of rules; I decide my own morals. I do not hate religion and I agree with a lot of its teachings (I also disagree with some).

I think Jesus was a great teacher and liberator of his time. His "turn the other cheek" came roughly 2000 years before Ghandi's (another great man) "an eye for an eye". Although alot of his teachings now seem 'backwards', they were very liberal for his time.

Sometimes I wish there wasn't a religion in his name. He deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest teachers/thinkers in human history. He simply doesn't get that respect from the non-christian community.

This thread is just for christians and non-christians to say that they respect/love/worship Jesus. A great liberator/teacher of his time.

 

Jesus was

A. A Nut

B. A Fraud

C. The Son of God

 

You cannot say you repest Jesus, yet deny God. Jesus many times claims to be diety, and the Son of God. So either he was telling the truth (what I believe), a wacko who thought he was a god, or a fraud trying to take advantage of people. I cannot see how an athiest can think Jesus was even a decent person.

Also, I do not take credit for this, C.S. Lewis wrote something similiar to whay I came up with.